You emerge in this foreign place awaiting your death, with demons immediately descending upon you. The world hasn’t just ended in the blink of an eye, there are reasons behind its demise that you’ll soon come to discover. It’s immediately striking, compounded with a sense of mystery that I’m unable to delve into as part of this preview, but I will say that the circumstances of this world are far deeper than you think. The apocalypse has come and gone, with a new ecosystem thriving amidst the rusted husks of vehicles and the decaying foundations of skyscrapers that continue to crumble into the scorching sands below. Tokyo is destroyed, everyone is dead, and there’s seemingly nothing you can do to prevent it. Here, the world is in ruins, occupied by angels and demons with only minute specks of humanity surviving amidst the chaos. Then one day a tunnel collapses atop of you and your fellow students, transporting you to a parallel dimension. Related: Is Your Favourite Pokemon Game Always Your First?
You weave through crowds of faceless people on their way to work and school, residing on a plane of existence where individuality feels meaningless.
The opening scenes are reminiscent of this metropolitan existence. You play as a silent protagonist in a similar vein to Persona 5’s Joker, a high school student seemingly content with his life as a young man in modern day Tokyo. The beloved SMT 3: Nocturne turned our protagonist into a demon as he’s forced to explore Tokyo as it crumbles to oblivion, and the fifth installment pursues a similar thematic goal, albeit on a much larger scale. While other games will seek to showcase small slivers of hope alongside a bustling personality from the ruins of destruction, Atlus’ JRPG series is transfixed on misery in a morbidly fascinating way. Nothing depicts the end of the world quite like Shin Megami Tensei.
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